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Photograph by N. Nesvadba on 26 July 2001

This view of the larger, southern, littoral cone of the Nanawale Sand Hills
shows the layered interior of the cone. The layers consist chiefly of small
glassy lava fragments
and blocks hurled into the air by explosions during the 1840
eruption of Kilauea. The seaward sides of both cones were removed by wave
erosion, and less than half of each cone remains. Person on top of cone
gives scale
(click on photo for larger image size).